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On Love and Death

by Patrick Suskind · 2005 · 80 pages

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The author reveals the hidden source of his fiction - an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death.

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Subject
philosophy
Setting
2000sgermany
Audience
adult
Length
short · 80 pages
Form
essays

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